Bingang Xu is a full Professor in School of Fashion and Textiles at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He serves now as the Chair of Research Postgraduate Programme Committee and Deputy Chair of Research Committee in the School. Prof. Xu has published over 200 book chapters, journal and conference papers, and also holds 12 granted patents. His research interests include smart and sustainable wearables, wearable electronics, energy harvesting, energy conversion and storage, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Prof. Xu's recent work on sustainable and energy materials and computer vision model has been published in high-impact SCI journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Matter, Nano Energy, Materials Today, Energy Storage Materials, Nano-Micro Letters and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. As the Principal Investigator, Prof. Xu has led his team to consecutively win Gold Awards with the Congratulations of Jury in International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Prof. Xu is now serving as a reviewer for over 36 international journals including Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Today, Matter, Nano Energy, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Energy Storage Materials, ACS Nano, Nano-Micro Letters, Chemical Engineering Journal, etc. He has been invited as General Chair, Co-chair, Editor, Co-editor, Keynote Speaker, and Section Chair for a number of international conferences, and also served as a TPC member for over 20 international conferences with themes in advanced materials, energy and power, electrical engineering and automation, materials and environmental, computer science and artificial intelligence, mechanical and applied mathematics. Prof. Xu is currently on the Editorial Board of a number of SCI journals, also served as External Assessor and Examiner for overseas research grant proposals and PhD thesis.